Better or Worse?

A local grocery store offers a “Wisdom Wednesday” discount, creating their own euphemism that suggests aging is too embarrassing to talk about directly.

A friend was shopping there when a cashier said, “You don’t qualify for the discount, do you?” and she thought that was a flattering way to bring it up, “Because they weren’t actually suggesting I’m old.”

She asked what I thought, so I told her: That’s only flattering if we actually believe being old is bad.

Their website says the discount is for people “65 and better,” but their behavior suggests they really mean “65 and worse.”

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